HP restructures pc print tightening cost cool cloud computing grabs

March 23, Hewlett-Packard officially announced in late Wednesday that it will merge PC and printer operations.

Industry analysis that, through layoffs to achieve http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11359.html "> control costs, is the real purpose of HP's restructuring plan, the two major business units after the merger, layoffs are imperative." The merger was a frustration for Hewlett-Packard, as well as a sobering and sensible part of HP's industrial transformation.

Guo Haitao, Vice general manager of CCW Information, told the IT Business News network that HP's move was mainly driven by cost-cutting considerations.

Guo Haitao pointed out that the cost of control for the traditional PC manufacturers, because the PC industry to today, has come to a mature stage, in this mature period any enterprise want to obtain high-speed development is impossible. In this case, enterprises want to get more profits, only to seize the opponent's market share, and control costs is to seize the opponent's market share an effective way.

It is often a precursor to the imminent commencement of mass layoffs when companies emit sound to reduce costs.

According to a person familiar with the situation, the combined PC and printer business will share sales and procurement teams and HP will lay off staff, but it is not clear how much layoffs are planned.

So far, HP has not responded to the claims of layoffs.

However, Whitman has previously said that the company may be laid off, saying it is a price to be paid to drive future growth.

HP CEO Whitman

HP's plans to cut costs through layoffs have been questioned, with analysts saying that the way around cost is not offensive and does not have any role in promoting business, indicating that HP has no clear plans for future development.

"HP has some important structural problems that need to be addressed but not addressed," said Rob Cihra, an investment firm Evercore, an analyst at Rob Sila. In addition to providing a pretext for layoffs and cost reductions, I do not see what the latest restructuring effort can do. ”

HP has been slow and disoriented in its efforts to lay out and plan for the emerging sectors of cloud computing, mobile interconnection, and so on, as major PC makers have begun to dabble in the new fields.

Analysts Sun Yongjie The IT Business News network that HP's choice to merge printers and PCs is more of a frustration, as the global PC market is weak, only to seek development in a cost-cutting way. For Hewlett-Packard's industry is criticized in the cloud computing, mobile interconnection and other emerging areas of the delay in the layout and planning, Sun Yongjie that this revealed that HP in the industrial transformation period of a sober and rational.

Previous analysts pointed out that the cloud computing, mobile interconnection and other emerging areas have been excessively beautified, the current number of PC manufacturers have dabbled in these emerging areas, but did not achieve the desired results, HP should have their own observation and consideration.

The reporter learned that HP is unlikely to develop in these areas, all of its manpower and technology are in the PC, to break industry barriers, Cross-border mobile interconnection or cloud computing area is difficult. In addition, HP's business scope is very broad, in not to find the time, it is impossible to easily dabble in other areas, if failed, the consequences will be extremely serious.

In addition, there are comments that HP restructured after printers and computer based business will be considered as a more independent "product department", and the rest is the "solution department", which has both corporate and final customers, but easier to provide to customers independently, the latter is mainly for enterprise customers, integration is competitive, There is no turning point in the industry. At this time, the "Sacrifice" printer department is a better choice, as IBM has sold PCs, hard drives and other departments. And today's computer business, has become HP burden, sold alone may not have the right buyer, computer and printer Department of the merger, but also unavoidably triggered the industry "HP Packaging selling print and PC business" conjecture.

There is even the analysis that the whole of HP also has a selling possibility, now alone is the right buyer and the right price.

Sun Yongjie said that before a new ecosystem fit for a traditional PC, it was hard for all PC makers to develop a breakthrough, and HP was waiting for an ecosystem to emerge.

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